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children

Excited for June

27 May 2010
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I’m excited for the new month to start because I’m participating in “I’m Finding the Joy” photography class. Over six weeks, we’ll be learning from the amazingly talented Kelly at willette designs. I’m so excited that I can barely contain myself! It’s important for me to document my children as they grow, but even more [...]

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Calamari Cake

7 May 2010
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Actually, this is modeled after an octopus and not squid but who’s going to hold me to it? For his birthday, Mr. B requested an underwater theme with an octopus on his cake. He also wished for angel food, which turned out to be the perfect light foil against the marshmallow fondant. After the cake [...]

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Walker Races

1 March 2010
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From Heather Bailey: my 13-year-old is now nearly my height — about 1/2″ to go. So bizarre. On our way to my parents’ house yesterday, Elijah was telling me how awesome it is to have a mom so close to him in age. (I was 21 when we had him.)”When I’m 60, you’ll be 81,” [...]

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Miss Chief’s 5th Birthday

23 November 2009
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I adore birthdays. I mean, I really adore birthdays! Miss Chief’s birthday was another opportunity for me to work on my cake decorating skills. She has been sucked into the Disney Princess black hole, so I felt that a castle was appropriate.

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Halloween 2009

26 October 2009
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This year, Miss Chief wanted to be Ariel (ar-ee-elle, not air-ee-elle). I sketched up a few ideas for her and we decided to go with this one: The mermaid tail instructions came from Burnouthappy on YouTube. Mr. B wanted to be a Water Dragon. I sketched this up for him: And here’s a collage that [...]

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Watering the Children

27 July 2009
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Today is a rather hot one in the sunshine. I’ve been working in the shaded garage on our chicken tractor complement to the new raised beds. The children have been the ones in the sun. And they’re hot. My solution? If Mr. B and Miss Chief are hot, then our plants might be thirsty as [...]

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